EWTN Mass for the Jubilee of Teenagers/for Vatican employees and faithful ...

Cardinals, royals and heads of state attended. But many mourners, some of whom slept on the streets overnight, said they came ...

World leaders and Catholic faithful bade farewell to Pope Francis in a funeral Saturday that highlighted his concern for people on the "most peripheral of the peripheries" and reflected his wishes as ...

The funeral of Pope Francis is underway in St. Peter’s square, where hundreds of thousands of people have gathered, including ...

There have been twelve Greek Popes in the history of the papacy, with Saint Peter considered to be the first Catholic leader.

With the funeral of Pope Francis, the Catholic Church has officially entered the Novendiales — a traditional nine-day period ...

(Photo by Johann Jaritz / CC BY-SA 3.0 AT) On April 6, visitors at St. Peter’s witnessed the rare display of the Santo Volto—the cloth believed to have been used by Saint Veronica to wipe the ...

Tens of thousands of people queued up outside St. Peter's Basilica on the last day to pay respects to Pope Francis before his funeral on April 26.

The basilica will be kept open until at least midnight on Thursday to allow the faithful to mourn. Francis' funeral will be ...

Tens of thousands of mourners filed into St. Peter's Basilica on Friday to pay their respects to Pope Francis in the final ...

During the time I covered religion for The Journal News/lohud, a highlight was covering John Paul II's funeral from the roof ...

After so many people lined up to see Pope Francis lying in state at St. Peter’s Basilica that the Vatican kept the doors open ...